2. Iconographic Atlas
- Stefano MAZZONI, Atlante iconografico. Spazi e forme dello spettacolo in occidente dal mondo antico a Wagner, new enlarged edition, Corazzano (Pisa), Titivillus, 2017 (N.B. including the Introduction and the Prologue, pp. 9-27).
3. reference framework
- Ludovico ZORZI, Scena, in Enciclopedia, Torino, Einaudi, 1981, vol. XII, pp. 495-528.
4. Texts
- Oddone LONGO, Lo spazio del teatro greco, in Drammaturgie dello spazio dal teatro greco ai multimedia, edited by Stefano Mazzoni, in «Drammaturgia», 2003, n. 10, pp. 15-37.
- Stefano MAZZONI, Maschera: storie di un oggetto teatrale, in Attori di carta. Motivi iconografici dall’antichità all’Ottocento, edited by Renzo Guardenti, Roma, Bulzoni, 2005, pp. 21-54 (with the relevant illustrations on the cdrom that accompanies the volume).
- Stefano MAZZONI, Nero tragicus cantor, in «Dionysus ex machina», III, 2012, pp. 226-243 (http://www.dionysusexmachina.it/pdf/articoli/93.pdf).
- Sara MAMONE, Il teatro nella Firenze medicea, Bologna, Cuepress, 2018, pp. 7-59.
- Stefano MAZZONI, «La gente de esta çiudad es la más vana y loca del mundo». Siena Carlo V i Medici e lo spettacolo accademico (1530-1703), in C. Bino, S. Mamone, S. Mazzoni, C. Pagnini, Forme dello spettacolo in Europa tra Medioevo e Antico regime, edited by S. Mamone, Perugia, Morlacchi, 2018, pp. 69-141.
- Stefano MAZZONI, Teatri italiani del Cinquecento: Vincenzo Scamozzi architetto-scenografo, in Drammaturgie dello spazio dal teatro greco ai multimedia, edited by Stefano Mazzoni, in «Drammaturgia», 2003, n. 10, pp. 103-40.
- Siro FERRONE, La Commedia dell’Arte. Attrici e attori italiani in Europa (XVI-XVIII secolo), Torino, Einaudi, 2014, pp. 3-126.
Part II (prof. Renzo Guardenti)
1. Lecture notes (essential).
2. Documents and educational materials (essential)
- Documents and educational materials presented during the lessons will be available to enrolled students on the plateform Moodle (https://e-l.unifi.it).
3. reference framework
- Cesare MOLINARI, Storia del teatro, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1996 (o successive ristampe), pp. 243-317.
4. texts
- Renzo GUARDENTI, In forma di quadro. Note di iconografia teatrale, Bologna, Cuepress, 2020.
- Renzo GUARDENTI, Thomassin: un nome, tre volti, in Studi di Storia dello spettacolo. Omaggio a Siro Ferrone, edited by Stefano Mazzoni, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2011, pp. 263-275.
- Renzo Guardenti, Immagini del teatro del Grand Siècle. Note sull’iconografia teatrale del Seicento francese, in La fortuna del 'Secolo d'Oro' per Marco Lombardi, edited by Barbara Innocenti, Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2018, pp. 73-87.
One on the following texts:
- Siro FERRONE, La vita e il teatro di Carlo Goldoni, Venezia, Marsilio, 2011.
- Edward Gordon Craig, oggi. Note sul convegno del cinquantenario, in Per Edward Gordon Craig nel cinquantenario della morte (1966-2016), Acts of the International Conference of Studies by Renzo Guardenti, monographic number of «Biblioteca Teatrale», n.s.. n. 125-126, gennaio-giugno 2018. (only Guardenti, Mango, Pedullà, Simoncini, Caretti, Sardelli, Nigro).
- Mirella SCHINO, La nascita della regia teatrale, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2003.
Learning Objectives
Students DAMS enrolled under M.D. no. 270/04: the course is composed of two indivisible sections. The course aims at providing students with the methodological tools for studying the history of spectacle, understood as the history of performative and public events based on complex systems of relations (actors, scenery, dramaturgy, public, patrons).
The course aims at providing specific historical philological competences on the history of theatre in the West fron the Ancient Age to the 20th century.
KNOWLWDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:
Knowledge of the History of the Western performing arts (from the ancient world to the 20th century) and understanding of complex systems of relations (actors, scenery, dramaturgy, public, patrons).
APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:
Know –according to a contextual view- the main features of the History of the Western performing arts (from the ancient world to the 20th century).
MAKING JUDGEMENTS:
Developing of critical judgement.
COMUNICATION SKILL:
use of proper terms of the history of spectacle.
LEARNING SKILLS:
Develop the learning skills, which are essential, in order to carry on the studies critically and autonomously.
Prerequisites
University-entrance degree. A good knowledge of European history.
Teaching Methods
Part I (prof. Stefano Mazzoni)
A historical-philological, global and contextual approach to the topics studied. The course will be integrated with the showing of pictures and video. The website Moodle will be used (36 hours).
Part II (prof. Renzo Guardenti)
A historical-philological, global and contextual approach to the topics studied. The course will be integrated with the showing of pictures and video. The website Moodle will be used (36 hours).
Further information
Part-time students who are unable to attend the lessons, may take the exam according to a study program provided by the teachers during their office hours.
Office hours timetable is provided on this page, whereas last minute announcements of unscheduled events (change of office hours, lectures, sessions of exams, etc.) are displayed on the scrolling notice-board of the Scuola home-page http://www.st-umaform.unifi.it/. If necessary, foreign students could agree upon a special program.
Type of Assessment
Oral test. The student will be examined on the course contents and on the required readings. At the exam, students should be able to: 1) know the contents of the topics of the face-to-face lessons; 2) understand the main theoretical categories of the Western performing arts; 3) express properly their own opinions; 4) Discuss and judge critically the topics and the bibliography of the course.
Course program
Part I (professor Stefano Mazzoni)
1. The Archaic Greek, Classical and Hellenistic theatres. 2. Practices and buildings of spectacle at Rome. 3. The space of the medieval theatre, profane and sacred. 4. The birth of the modern theatre. 5. From the space to the building of theatres in Italy of 16th century. 6. The Commedia dell’Arte. 7. Melodrama, Italian theatre and the baroque spectacle.
Part II (prof. Renzo Guardenti)
1. The Elizabethan Theatre 2. The French Theatre in the Grand Siècle. 3. The Commedia dell’Arte in Europe. 4. Theatrical reforms in the Eighteenth Century. 5. Theatre in Europe in the Nineteenth Century: from the Romantic era to the phenomenon of the Grande Attore. 6. The naissance of the stage directing: the protagonists. 7. Forms of the contemporary theatre.